Text+Suggestions+for+Year+13+Plays

The texts listed below are considered to be of literary merit and suitable for study at NCEA Level 3 and level 8 of the curriculum because they allow the students to respond critically:

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 * **Text Title** || **Text Author** || **Comment** ||
 * Playboy of the western world || J M Synge ||  ||
 * The Songmaker's Chair || Albert Wendt ||  ||
 * Bellbird : a play || Stephen Sinclair ||  ||
 * Juno and the Paycock || Sean O'Casey ||  ||
 * Wednesday to Come || Renee ||  ||
 * Children of the Poor || Mervyn Thompson ||  ||
 * Equus || Peter Schaffer ||  ||
 * The Royal Hunt of the Sun || Peter Schaffer ||  ||
 * The glass menagerie || Tenessee Williams ||  ||
 * The crucible || Arthur Miller ||  ||
 * Translations || Brian Friel ||  ||
 * A Doll’s House || Henrik Ibsen ||  ||
 * Death and the Maiden || Ariel Dorfman ||  ||
 * Death of a Salesman || Arthur Miller ||  ||
 * Dr Faustus || Christopher Marlowe ||  ||
 * Foreskin’s Lament || Greg McGee ||  ||
 * King Lear || Shakespeare ||  ||
 * Lady Windermere’s Fan || Oscar Wilde ||  ||
 * Master Harold and the Boys || Athol Fugard ||  ||
 * Much Ado About Nothing || Shakespeare ||  ||
 * Ophelia Thinks Harder || Jean Betts ||  ||
 * Othello || Shakespeare ||  ||
 * Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead || Tom Stoppard ||  ||
 * The History Boys || Alan Bennett ||  ||
 * The Kid || Michael Gow ||  ||
 * The Laraime Project || Moises Kaufman ||  ||
 * Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolfe? || Edward Albee ||  ||